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Gentleman flier was last of his kind Charles Aubrey Sander had lots of stories to tell Charles Aubrey Sander represented the end of an era — the last of Southern Oregon's pioneer aviators. Comment By BILL MILLER MailTribune.com By BILL MILLER Posted Apr. 25, 2010 at 2:00 AM By BILL MILLER Posted Apr. 25, 2010 at 2:00 AM Broken engine? No problem for Sander --> The Sander Aeronautical School, pictured above, began at the old Medford Airport near today's South Gateway Shopping Center and then moved to the Sander property that was almost directly across fro... » Read more X Broken engine? No problem for Sander The Sander Aeronautical School, pictured above, began at the old Medford Airport near today's South Gateway Shopping Center and then moved to the Sander property that was almost directly across from today's Highway 62 Shopping Center. In the Southern Oregon Historical Society's collection is a cylinder from one of Aubrey Sander's airplanes. In 1934, while taking photographs over Medford, a cylinder in his engine broke away, hit the propeller and fell like a bomb on the lawn of Medford Postmaster Frank DeSouza, at the southwest corner of 11th and Orange streets. No one was hurt, including Aubrey, who calmly glided the sputtering plane to a safe landing. » Social News Charles Aubrey Sander represented the end of an era — the last of Southern Oregon's pioneer aviators. He loved to laugh and tell stories, but most of all he loved to fly. Born July 10, 1911, in a three-room farmhouse in the middle of the scorching Nevada desert, he was the third child of Fred Sander and Charity Bell Richie. "I was a normal baby boy," he said. "I had all the normal toes and fingers and all the other facilities that baby boys have. I was lucky. I had a very hard-working and thrifty father and my mother was very wise." Except for his wife, Mary, Aubrey never loved anyone more than his mother and father, and even when he was 90 years old, just the mention of his mother's name brought tears to his eyes. His stories begin in childhood. He remembered the "dangers" of learning to talk and how he picked up some "French" words from the hired hands. He didn't know what they meant, but his mother apparently did. When spankings and scoldings failed to stop his language experiments, she reached for a bar of Ivory soap and suddenly he was cured. "I only wish I could remember those words," he would say, his wink bringing you in on the joke. When he was 7, his mother got sick. Doctors told her to get out of the desert and find a cooler climate, so they packed their car and left. It was a hard trip, but once they saw the Rogue Valley from Siskiyou Pass, it was over. "It looked like a real paradise," said Aubrey. "I can remember mother saying 'This is as far as I want to go.' " The family settled into their new life. There were oak trees, a pear orchard, horses and cows, and best of all, a flower garden for Mary. Aubrey "bungled along" and made his way through Medford's high school. In 1926, his brother, Harold, made friends with Art Starbuck, one of the pilots flying air mail in and out of Medford. Starbuck said he knew where a World War I Curtiss Jenny biplane was for sale for $500. He offered to buy the plane, fly it back to Oregon and teach Harold to fly. Harold quickly gave Starbuck the money. The next year, Harold opened Sander Aeronautical School, teaching "the skill of flying" for $25 an hour. Among his first 12 students was his 16-year-old brother, Aubrey. When Charles Lindbergh came to town, Aubrey got to meet him. "I got to shake his hand," he said, his eyes still showing the excitement years later. The Depression ended the flying school, but Aubrey continued to fly until he could fly no more. During World War II, he taught "a bunch of green kids" to be Army Air Corps pilots as an assistant flight commander for the Southeast Flight Training Command in Florida. Southern Oregon's last pioneer aviator died in 2005. He was an "ordinary fellow," a gentleman who told endless stories with a twinkle in his eye, who always made you laugh and always loved to fly. Writer Bill Miller lives in Shady Cove. Reach him at [email protected]. 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